Posts tagged: heat
How to make a Kandle Heeter™
By DIY Maven
CraftyPod points us to the very clever Kandle Heeter™, a handmade, low tech contraption that acts as a space heater. It's a collection of terra cotta pots with a solid steel inner core made up of hex nuts and washers and things, which collect the heat of a candle or, new for 2008, a halogen light bulb. You can buy the candle version for $29.95 and the electric version is $49.95; however, the generous creator provides how-to instructions to ma » READ MORE
Air Conditioner Calculator (Or, how to figure out how big of an air conditioner you need to buy.)
By DIY Maven
Hot summer days are just around the corner. If you're thinking of investing in a new window air conditioner, you'll want to buy one big enough--but not TOO big--to cool your room. To help you figure out just what size of an air conditioner you need, Good Housekeeping has a handy air conditioner calculator. Just enter the square feet of the room that needs to be cooled, an estimate of how well insulated the room is, if it's sunny and, finally, i » READ MORE
The Top Ten Reasons to Install a Programmable Thermostat.
By ChrisjobSeriously, folks, you've gotten get one of these...even if you rent, it's an easy project that you can switch out when you leave, and take it with you. Save money and the environment with this easy DIY project.
2. Most thermostats contain two programs: one each for the weekdays and week days. Many contain three programs (for weekdays, Saturday, and Sunday) and some even » READ MORE
Cool Off Your Overheated Laptop.
By ChrisjobTech blog PC Tips Box offers three tips to keep your lap and fingers cool as you work on your laptop, perhaps as you write your Curbly post masterpiece?
1. Clean the fan
2. Monitor the vitals
3. Work using a ergonomic fan riser.
Read the full article here.
curtain over doorway
By megrockstarI have a huge open "doorway" into my livingroom when you come up the stairs. My thinking is that in the winter all my heat is going to go in the stairwell( I know it rises but the pull down is down there). So, I see in restaurants in the city, when it is freezing they put a giant curtain around the door. What about a thick giant curtain into my livingroom that also traps the heat? weird? ever done not in a public place?
Notice all my posts are a » READ MORE
fan heat/roofdeck/help!
By megrockstaroh curbly my friend I am back. Things are busy all over withschool ending and such. Heres my latest. i think I posted before that i get like 0 heat in my bedroom at night. So I had the guy over today to check it out. He told me that because Im on two outside walls its gonna be cold. I told him no no no because the person downstairs has a sweltering bedroom. So he said I could do this and that but it ended up i need to get an inline fan installed » READ MORE
Corn Fed Furnaces
By DIY Maven
Sometimes, in exploring alternative energies, one must look back to look forward. Case in point: The biomass stove. It all started with Ben Franklin, who invented the iron furnace stove. Then, in 1973, Mike Haefner tweaked Ben’s baby and created the first certified biomass fuel stove. The improvement lay in the fact that Mike’s creation burned biomass.
Question #1
What’s biomass? Biomass itself is the process of turning trees and plant materia » READ MORE
Save money this winter on your electric heating: get rid of that ugly baseboard heater
By alexrussell
The trouble with baseboard heaters is complex. They are both ugly and they use a lot of electricity to keep a room warm. You really need a heater that moves the air and heats a room quickly. The answer is to replace that baseboard heater with an electric wall heater, and you'd be surprised how easy it can be to do this job yourself.
A wall heater is a single unit that sits inside the wall and forces hot air throughout the room with a fan. It » READ MORE
